The General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions Order 2004

Removal from the list of patients at the request of the patient

5.  Where, on or before 31st March 2004, a Primary Care Trust had received notice from a patient under regulation 23(1)(a) of the 1992 Regulations(1) that he wished to be removed from a relevant medical practitioner’s list of patients but on 31st March 2004 that removal had not yet taken effect in accordance with regulation 23(1)(b) of those Regulations, the removal shall take effect as a removal from the list of patients of the succeeding contractor as if it were a removal pursuant to a request received by the Primary Care Trust in accordance with—

(a) the term of the succeeding contractor’s general medical services contract which gives effect to paragraph 19 of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Regulations, subject to the modification that the reference to the period of 14 days in the term which gives effect to paragraph 19(3)(b) shall be read as a reference to the period of 14 days after the date on which the request made under regulation 23(1)(a) of the 1992 Regulations was received by the Primary Care Trust; or

(b) the equivalent term of its default contract subject to a modification to the same effect.

(1)

Regulation 23(1) was amended by S.I. 2002/2469.